Settled Down

After a wild Thursday, Friday took more to form with 13 top seeds winning.  Suznana and SilverSurfer are on top getting 27 correct (54 pts).  Sisyphus is last with 34 pts.  Random is the only person who could win all 16 games in the next two days.  And the Pac-10 win both games (Cal exploding to a large early lead) and maybe, might get a little respect.

Craziness…

Wow.  Six upsets in the first 12 games.  That’s more than we had in all of 2007 (5 in 32 games).  No one picked Ohio U. to beat down #3MW-Georgetown, meaning Sexual Napalm’s win streak ended at 10.  He then didn’t pick Washington (Go Pac-10!) which now puts him in a 5-way tie for first and a 2-game losing streak :-).  Just 40 picked Washington while 67 picked Northern Iowa.  83 have more than 6 wins, so pat yourselves on the back.

Jonna Rocks and Droppin’ Dimes (which he has now lost 2 of his Final Four (Notre Dame)) lost their champ, the Hoyas, while three more lost them in their Final Four.  And curiously, #1 had UTEP in his Final Four.. whoops.

Three (Random, David’s Lighter, and EastCoastBias) still have their Sweet 16 intact so they avoided the Hoya hype.

USC Wins Pac-10 Title

Whoa… now I gotta pick them to make the 2nd round.  There’s one loss in my bracket already.  This is probably the final nail in Arizona’s coffin in extending their steak of 24 straight tourneys.  That gives the Pac 10 5 teams in the tourney, which is already one too many.  No room for ‘Zona to sneak in this time.  Barring some extreme generosity by the selection committee, Arizona and Kentucky failing to make the tourney will only leave Kansas as the lone team to be in every bracket since our pool started in 1995.